Alice of Champagne

Alice of Champagne (1193-1247) was Queen Consort of Cyprus from 1210 to 1218 with Hugh I of Cyprus, later marrying Bohemond V of Antioch and Raoul de Soissons. From 1228 to 1247, she ruled the Kingdom of Jerusalem, succeeding Isabella II of Jerusalem and preceding Hugh III of Cyprus.

Biography
Alice of Champagne was the daughter of Henry II of Champagne and Isabella I of Jerusalem, and she married her step-brother Hugh I of Cyprus. In 1223, she left Cyprus after a dispute with Philip of Ibelin, bailiff of Cyprus, and she remarried to Bohemond V of Antioch. Alice laid claim to the kingdom of Jerusalem against the infant Conrad IV of Germany, and she claimed the title "Queen of Jerusalem" from 1228 to 1247 after Conrad left Jerusalem behind. In 1232, she abandoned the regency in favor of her son Henry I of Cyprus, but she returned to the Holy Land after a failed bid to acquire more lands in France for her family, the House of Blois. In 1240, she married Raoul de Soissons, who was half her age; she died in 1247.